Daily Archives: June 3, 2020
10,000 Israelis quarantined, 43 schools closed following COVID-19 spike
A sharp rise in the number of coronavirus patients in Israel, particularly among students and teachers, is causing health and education officials to consider shutting down the school system for the rest of the academic year....
Hundreds of Israelis’ personal data published online by hackers
Hackers recently published the credit card details and phone numbers of hundreds of Israelis, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.
The information—stolen and released on the web by a group calling itself “Anonymous1islamic”—is still available online...
5 Jordanians on trial for planning terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria
Five Jordanians are standing trial in their home country for planning terrorist attacks against Israeli targets in Judea and Samaria, French news agency AFP reported on Tuesday.
According to a Jordanian official, the suspects’ trial began last...
Iran ‘opened a Pandora’s box’ in cyber attack on Israeli water system
The Iranian cyber attack in early April on an Israeli water-treatment facility, designed to get computers to add too much chlorine to the Israeli water supply, represents a new phase in Iranian aggression, a former Israeli...
First Israeli nonprofit bank raises $30 million for coronavirus assistance in Israel
Israel’s first nonprofit bank, the Ogen Group, announced on Monday that it has raised $30 million from donors and impact lenders from Israel and abroad to provide emergency survival loans and financial mentoring to...
June 3, 1885: Sverdlov The Bolshevik, was born
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, the author of Russia’s revolutionary constitution and one of the chief planners of the 1917 October Revolution, was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on this date in 1885....